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Title Author Year
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
Blue May Swenson 1994
The Plaid Dress Edna St. Vincent Millay 2001
About Face Alice Fulton 1995
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
Bearing Down Tina Chang 2026
Da Normalization of War Lee A. Tonouchi 2021
Mom Refaat Alareer 2024
Olympus Matthew Olzmann 2025
Hymn of Nature Felicia Dorothea Hemans 1851
The Story as I Understand It Leonora Speyer 1926
The Lord is American W. J. Lofton 2025
Dear Sister Emma Trelles 2025
My Dead Relatives Myrna Nieves 2024
Another Gaza Reel Haleh Liza Gafori 2023
The City Lights Lucy Larcom 1900
Fear Liv Mammone 2024
About, Among Other Things, God Pat Schneider 2005
Invisible Work Kwoya Fagin Maples 2024
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again Daisy Fried 2006

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